N C Singhal was the founder Chief Executive Officer, designated as the Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of the erstwhile SCICI Limited, a premier banking institution, structured for the development of industry and infrastructure in India. Earlier, he was a senior executive with ICICI retiring as a member of the Board of Directors.
NCS was engaged as a Management Specialist with the Asian Development Bank, Manila, for its programs in South Korea and Pakistan, and for advising the National Bank of Uzbekistan. The Government of India had deputed him as a Banking Expert to the Industrial Development Bank of Afghanistan, a World Bank program . He was also Adviser to Nikko Securities, London/Tokyo.
He has been associated with banking, industrial and educational organisations, in India and abroad, as advisor, chairman/director and trustee, including Vice-Chairman of the Maritime Commission of The International Chamber of Commerce, Paris.
He obtained PG degrees in Economics, Statistics and Administration, and participated in several AMPs. He was awarded the United Nations Development Program Fellowship. He has been regular invitee to the annual meetings of the IMF-World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the Association of the Development Financial Institutions of Asia & Pacific; as well as a guest speaker at several conferences, organised by international banks, International Chamber of Commerce in France, and at several business schools and professional bodies.